This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. Part...
Read more →Change of pace today. I’m a big fan of the Marek v. Wyshynski podcast but those guys have, occasionally, discussed the 2005-06 Edmonton Oilers with something less than the reverence I believe to be appropriate. Indeed, the f word has been used: fluke. It always bugs me when people call that team a fluke...
Read more →The Edmonton Oilers have been awfully supportive of Hockey Canada over the years. I was curious so I went and looked at the past decade or so and Edmonton’s sent 25 players to the World Championships for Team Canada in that time. Second best is Carolina, with 13. If you look at it on...
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. Part...
Read more →If you watched the end of last night’s Meltdown in Beantown, you probably wondered a little bit about what the odds of such thing happening were. Tom Tango took a stab at estimating it on his blog – I thought I’d push it a little further and try and come up with an estimate...
Read more →I’ve been doing some podcasting/radio lately. If that’s your kind of thing, feel free to check it out: 1. CanucksArmy podcast with Thomas Drance: Link 2. Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer (no direct link – scroll down to May 10): Link 3. The Lowdown with Lowetide: Email Tyler Dellow at mc79hockey@gmail.com
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. Part...
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. Part 5 can be found here. There’s...
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. Part 4 can be found here. I’m going to shift gears a little...
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. I want to provide a bit of a roadmap as far as where...
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. I’m going to move now from discussing Shot Attempts Allowed (SAA) to discussing Shot Attempts For (SAF). The observant...
Read more →This is part of a series looking for reasons for the Oilers Corsi% collapse in 2012-13 by examining things on a shift-by-shift basis. Part 1 can be found here. In the first part of this series, I examined the performance of Oilers forwards in 2012-13 through three distinct lenses: the percentage of shifts on...
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